Posted on 03/02/2020 6:49:29 AM PST by karpov
North Carolina public universities are more than just institutions of higher learning. They are each small cities of young adults with Olympic-level athletic franchises, massive dining and fitness clubs, and special interest hobby communities supported by extensive human and physical infrastructure.
To fund the many perks and benefits of university life, schools charge extra fees beyond tuition and room and board. In the University of North Carolina system, students at each of the 16 member institutions pay, on average, more than $2,500 annually in mandatory fees.
Mandatory student fees are slowly going up at North Carolina public universities, making attendance more expensive and raising questions about the true need and value of the amenities they help provide. Those fees have risen by 16.9 percent since the 2015-2016 academic year, on average, and schools are planning another markup set to take effect this fall.
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The solution is enrolling in your favorite college online. No frills and fewer bills.
Colleges should be required to cosign all government student loans. If the students to keep up payments, the colleges have to pay.
This should be retroactive.
Community College for your first 2 years is also a prudent approach. More economic, helps kids define their interests, allow time for acclimation to college life.
Agreed, they are selling a worthless product to many students and I should not have to pay for it.
In many Stares, Georgia being one, Current Student , actually student govt, votes for fees to pay for fees to pay for a new building that will come online after they graduate and for a feee they will. Ever pay. It becomes the responsibility of the students following them.
Hey young socialists weren’t you taught? Socialism is Legal Plunder - The Law; Bastiat 1801-1850. Enjoy, indoctrinated debt slaves. Read about Bourgeois Bernie in the Communist Manifesto. Karl hated him.
I agree. One of my kids is enrolled at Unbound.org
Another recently graduated from a small private engineering university. No sports, no dorms etc. as far as I know, there were zero fees
All those “education” bureaucrats have to get paid somehow. And the tenured professor of lesbo studies making $165,000 per year also has to get their dough. Pay up, suckers!
Mandatory fees mandated by mandatory student government mandated by the accreditation cartel. College is an American treasure dontya know.
Somebody’s got to pay for all those money losing athletic programs. Kids working weekends unable to go the games paying for the scholarships of rhe kids playing the games.
Excellent point. A student who is not well prepared could work and take fewer classes at a community college each semester. They could pay as much as possible, minimizing debt. This will give them time to develop the critical thinking and reasoning skills required to pass courses in majors that pay decent wages post-college. After finishing at the community college they could transfer to an accredited program at a university.
16.9% over 5 years is just a smidge over the inflation rate, at most.
One of the hidden overhead items in “college education” is many students arrive unprepared for any rigorous programs, hence, the amount of remedial “english” AKA being able to read and “math” AKA being able to add and subtract. Pile on the now required diversity indoctrination and the costs of housing “students” in resort style dorms plus various administrators who do nothing but administrate paperwork and things have sprialled out of control. The whole system needs a reboot starting with having professors who do nothing but pontificate while they guide student proctors who actually present the programs. All this due to the guaranteed loan program.
Agreed, reforms from top to bottom for colleges as well as serious K-12 reforms.
Only if you choose to go to such a college.
That is absolutely the way to go. Of the three parts to education financing (Big Education, student, any loan source)only Big education has no skin in the game. B.E. bears no responsibility for the product they turn out but they damn sure make the student pay up front.
Fees are the end-around for actual tuition. When advertising for students, a competitive tuition number may be what gets the kid in the door. Since there are no controls on fees, they can be used to make up any loss incurred because of a low tuition number.
So they are basically Congresscritters in training. Rack up a huge bill on the institution’s credit card, then kick the can down the road for the next generation to pay.
Another recently graduated from a small private engineering university. No sports, no dorms etc. as far as I know, there were zero fees
Yes, that is the way it should be. No sports = no athletic scholarships = students actually attend to learn, not to get into the pro leagues. Many European countries already have this model, where the students live at home with their parents and costs are much lower. But in the US we just have to have our diversity at all costs, even if it means letting in unqualified students with the right skin tone and giving them athletic scholarships.
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